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...over to England, and the freight routed over railroads. Then, under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the President could seize or purchase any U.S. ship, set up priorities under which ships now hauling fruit, silk and luxuries would begin moving the 19,000,000 tons of asbestos, bauxite, copper, cork, manganese, rubber, tin, sisal, nitrates, tungsten, vanadium and other strategic materials the U.S. needs for defense production. Thousands of tons of these materials are piled on foreign docks...
These events did not end the danger of serious labor trouble, but they postponed and mitigated it. The Ford strike was still unsettled. C.I.O. electrical workers struck and closed the Bayway, N.J. plant of Phelps Dodge Copper Products Corp. over issues of a closed shop, vacations, pay. Sixteen smaller defense plants were still struck...
Reasons why Chile had been the first country in the Western Hemisphere so to be honored were not hard to find. Chile is far from the U. S. It commands the strategic Strait of Magellan. It is an important source of copper and nitrates. It has South America's only Popular Front Government, with concomitant Rightist dissatisfaction. It contains South America's oldest, most firmly established German minority (in the southern lake country, where Baron von Thermann went on his vacation). And Chile's extreme Rightists think highly of Chile's fascist-minded onetime President General...
TRAITOR'S PURSE-Margery Alllngham -Crime Club ($2). Daffy from a copper's clout, Albert Campion sheds his amnesia in time's nick, saves England from civil commotion. Present are Manservant Lugg and Lady Amanda Fritton, Campion's fiancee. Another of Margery Allingham's well-made, well-mannered British stories...
...selects a group of bright young men and women, gives them about $2,500 apiece to be free for a year to write a novel, paint a picture, examine a star. The number of its fellowships depends on the fund's income (one of its chief investments: copper). Their peak: 86 in 1929. Last week the Foundation climbed back almost to the 1929 peak, awarded 85 fellowships. Noteworthy was the fact that 14 fellows are to work in Latin America, that one is a scientist doing important work on U. S. defense. Some awards...